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Police say a 31-year-old Alabama man may have been shot dead by his 2-year-old son, NBC News reports. The boy's mother returned home from work yesterday to find Divine Chambliss lying dead on a bed, according to AL.com. NBC reports Chambliss had been shot in the head. There was no sign of an intruder, and no one else was thought to have been at the apartment at the time of the shooting.

According to a statement, police in Hoover are continuing to investigate, "and detectives are not completely ruling out other possibilities." But at the moment, it appears that the toddler accidentally shot his father. Police are trying to figure out how such a young child could have fired the gun, NBC reports.

Keep on thinning the herd. At least 79 children in the U.S. unintentionally shot someone with a handgun or rifle during the first four months of this year, killing 24 people and wounding another 56, according to an interactive study published Monday by Everytown For Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America. That figure amounts to an accidental shooting by a child age 17 or under every 36 hours. The findings underscore the grave danger many youngsters face in homes where firearms are not safely stored, say gun control advocates. Everytown estimates that as many as two million American children live in homes where firearms are easily accessible. For their current study, the two groups tracked media reports of accidental shootings by children in the U.S. between January 1 and April 30. They found that 50 of the 79 incidents were committed by someone age 13 or under. Of those, children between the ages of two and four committed 25 of them. Last month, a 3-year-old in Cleveland made national headlines after he got his hands on a loaded gun inside a home and shot 1-year-old Braylon Robinson in the head, killing him. In January, Nicholas Cardillo was critically wounded when his toddler grandson shot him in the neck in North Carolina. The 46-year-old Cardillo had set his .380-caliber pistol down when he hopped the shower. Nearly half of the shooting injuries documented by Everytown and Moms Demand Action were self-inflicted, the study found. At least 35 children shot themselves, 12 of them fatally.

Cocksure

Aug 20, 2015 8:36 AM CDT

ROTFL - God loves playing tricks on the dim wits he creates. It is ironic that this Alabama man was named Divine. Sounds holy doesn't it. Maybe God wanted him in Heaven quicker. Now we can try the two year old for murder. Who cares if he cannot even speak yet? The little shit is a murderer. Maybe the mom set the whole thing up. Remember guns make us all safer. Maybe the dad was a very bad person and the infant did the world a favor. Ha ha ha! God is such a practical joker. God & Guns make the world a better place. Amen.